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Tue Nov 7, 2023, 11:40 AM Nov 2023

AP: Super fog blankets New Orleans again, as damp fires and smoke close interstate after deadly crash

Super fog blankets New Orleans again, as damp fires and smoke close interstate after deadly crash
Updated 11:14 AM EST, November 7, 2023

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dense smoke reminiscent of last month’s “super fog” that rolled into Louisiana has led to a deadly crash that shut down Interstate 10 in the New Orleans area early Tuesday, police said.

The thoroughfare was closed due to smoke, fog and accidents involving multiple vehicles, New Orleans police said in a statement.

“Multiple people were injured and transported to the hospital,” the agency said after the accident around 4:30 a.m.

Smoke from fires near New Orleans is getting trapped under a very shallow layer of the atmosphere near the ground along Interstate 10 in eastern Orleans Parish, the National Weather Service said. As a result, motorists could see a quarter-mile (0.40 kilometers) or less, the weather service said.

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